Dan LaCosta News

Syracuse Crunch owner Howard Dolgon is visiting Columbus on Wednesday to try to clear up what he described as some "gray areas'' that could be clouding the new Syracuse-Columbus affiliation extension.

So, all you Crunch fans are going out to get your Alexander Salak jerseys, right? Here's what I want to know: bigger Amerks villain - Houda or Salak? Well, at least the remaining Rochester games in Syracuse should be good theater.

Keaton Ellerby got the Amerks first home hat trick since Stefan Meyer got one in December 2006 to lead the Amerks to victory.

On the list of things you probably don't want to see at this point: Syracuse Crunch forward Alexandre Picard playing goal.

Paul Szczechura scored just 58 seconds into the opening period and the Crunch could never catch up to Norfolk, as they lost for the first time in regulation on home ice this season, 6-1, in front of 4,986 fans at the War Memorial at Oncenter.

Tyler Wright, player development coach for the Columbus Blue Jackets, was at the Syracuse Crunch's game at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton on Saturday.

Long-time friends Dan LaCosta and Kevin Lalande were part of a large traveling party that took a vacation in the Dominican Republic last summer.

National Hockey League NHL-Suspended Phoenix F Francis Lessard for the remainder of preseason and three regular-season games as the result of a game misconduct penalty in a preseason game against Anaheim on Sept.

COLUMBUS - The Columbus Blue Jackets cut their roster to 36 by re-assigning two players on Wednesday.

Nothing was more troublesome for the Blue Jackets last season than the play of their backup goaltenders.

When an American Hockey League team's season ends without a visit to the playoffs -- as the Syracuse Crunch's did last year -- the long offseason is usually filled with questions.

I caught up with Jared Aulin the other day so he could bring me up to speed on his backstory.

StingersOnIce.com: Columbus Re-Signs G LaCosta Our Blue Jackets correspondent, Bobby Roberts, looks into the signing of netminder Dan LaCosta.

The Blue Jackets re-signed restricted free-agent goaltender Dan LaCosta to a one-year contract yesterday.

Movements in the world of hockey Tuesday: National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES-Bought out the remaining contract year of D Frantisek Kaberle.

John Moore's life has been a whirlwind the past month. "Exciting and hectic, all at once," said the Blue Jackets' first-round pick said last month in the NHL entry draft.

The Columbus Blue Jackets have narrowed their NHL goaltending coach search to one man.

Columbus brass, like the rest of the NHL, is in Toronto this week to talk to possible draft prospects at the scouting combine.